Congress Quote by Charles Krauthammer

Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

— Fabrizio Moreira

If the president is allowed to govern by executive action, then the rule of law greatly suffers.

— Scott Pruitt

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

“If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might…

— Gary Hansen

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express…

— Prashant Bhushan

Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.

— Kellyanne Conway

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

— Lyn Nofziger

“By the same token, the executive cannot exercise legislative power, even if it has legislative authorization, for when it acts alone, it is a…

— Philip Hamburger

Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.

— Scott Pruitt

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of…

— John Adams

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy

The thing about an executive order - there has never been an executive order that a Congress couldn't say, "You know, we don't like…

— Tim Kaine